From: Alessandro Baretta <alex@baretta.com>
To: ocaml <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] On the equality of functional values
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 07:15:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DBCD600.2000307@baretta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.03.10210271855480.8981-100000@basilic.ens.fr>
David Monniaux wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Oct 2002, Alessandro Baretta wrote:
>
>
> If I remember well, = is implemented by doing first a == (equality of
> pointers) test, and returning true if that test succeeds; otherwise,
> the more complex recursive equality test is performed, which fails with
> an exception if it encounters functional values.
>
> So if x and y are the same closure, x=y succeeds and yields the true
> value. Otherwise, it throws an exception.
This is what I suspected. I wonder if this behavior conforms
to specification, or if it is an incidental concequence of
the implementation of (=).
Alex
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-28 6:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-27 14:10 Alessandro Baretta
2002-10-27 15:34 ` David Brown
2002-10-27 17:58 ` David Monniaux
2002-10-28 6:15 ` Alessandro Baretta [this message]
2002-10-28 8:34 ` jeanmarc.eber
2002-10-29 10:32 ` Pierre Weis
2002-10-27 18:02 ` Remi VANICAT
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